Environmentalism vs communism was re : Poland, the environment, communism. etc

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:53 AM 5/30/96 +0200, you wrote:

>In fact the subject you're touching on is an enormous one, and one
>of great importance to the Marxists of today. Since 20-30 years
>back in fact, a quite particular, and intensifying, *warfare* has been
>waged by more and more bourgeois forces against the proletariat and
>the oppressed peoples, under the guise of "environmentalism". The
>US imperialists and other reactionaries in the '70:s managed to
>get most of those forces which precisely *pretend* to be "Marxist"
>If you'd like me to, I could e-mail you some of those posts I
>mentioned concerning the "green" warfare by the main forces of
>the bourgeoisie.
>
>Rolf M.

Rolf

Thank you for your reply.  It  was very helpful.  If you could e mail me
some stuff I would be extremely grateful.

I was very struck by the relevance of what we are talking about to Comrade
Vladimir's remarks about the  deindustrialisation of Russia.  In that
context the discourse of environmentalism is indeed very useful for the
capitalists.

I have also thought about another discourse- "Fourth worldism" and how it
has been mobilised against the Left. Here surely the classic case is that of
the Sandinistas vs the Miskitu.  It was extremely ironic to see the
Americans who have slaughtered millions of indigenous peoples worriying
about the "rights" of the Miskitu.

Was it Lenin who said "Left in appearance,  but right in essence" to
describe such unprincipled attacks?


Regards

Gary



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